CVE detail

CVE-2019-12655 — CVE-2019-12655

Published 2019-09-25 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor cisco · Product ios · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0197

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

79.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A vulnerability in the FTP application layer gateway (ALG) functionality used by Network Address Translation (NAT), NAT IPv6 to IPv4 (NAT64), and the Zone-Based Policy Firewall (ZBFW) in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow that occurs when an affected device inspects certain FTP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by performing a specific FTP transfer through the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to reload.

Remediation

Product	Vulnerable range	Fixed version	Advisory
Cisco Cisco IOS XE Software 3.16.8S	>=unspecified<n/a	not specified	advisory ↗

References

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